Leslie Pease Barnum

1876

Frank Duveneck

Artist, American, 1848 - 1919

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 56 x 46 cm (22 1/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
    framed: 73.7 x 64.1 x 4.1 cm (29 x 25 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.8.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The sitter [1846-1915]; by inheritance to his sister, Louise Barnum Robbins, Adrian, Michigan; by inheritance 1918 to the sitter's niece, Mrs. Arthur L. Fuller, Chicago;[1] Richard Creifelds; sold 13 February 1919 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[2] his estate;[3] sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Letter of 29 May 1919 from E. N. Smith to Charles Harris, agent for Clarke (in NGA curatorial files), traces the descent from Barnum to Robbins to Fuller.
[2] A copy of Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries Collected by Thomas B. Clarke (Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928) annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library). specifies this work was sold to Clarke by R. Creifelds, presumably Richard Creifelds (1853 1939), an American artist whose work Clarke also collected.
[3] "Auction Sales," International Studio 99 (May 1931): 59.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1924

  • Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, February 1924, no. 11.

1928

  • Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue.

1943

  • American Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1943.

1953

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.

1955

  • American Paintings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

1967

  • American Painting, Art Resources Traveler (Artmobile), Illinois, 1967.

Bibliography

1928

  • Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered.

  • Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. "Frank Duveneck." Art in America 16 (February 1928): 97.

  • Barker, Virgil. "Portraiture in America before 1876." The Arts 13, no. 5 (May 1928): 286.

1929

  • Antiquarian 12 (June 1929): repro. 41.

1930

  • Sherman 1930, 61.

1936

  • Heerman, Norbert. Exhibition of the Work of Frank Duveneck. Exh. cat. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 1936: 74.

1970

  • Booth, Billy Ray. "A Survey of Portraiture and Figure Paintings by Frank Duveneck." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, Athens, 1970: xiii, 85-87, repro.

  • American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 50, repro.

1980

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 147, repro.

1992

  • American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 163, repro.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 152-154, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20188816

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